in the final analysis
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Also, in the last analysis. When all things are considered. For example, In the final analysis we must find ways to improve our sales, or I can, in the last analysis, talk only about my own work. This expression was at first put as in the ultimate analysis. [Late 1700s]
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Words nearby in the final analysis
in the eye, in the eye of, in the face, in the face of, in the family way, in the final analysis, in the first place, in the flesh, in the flush of, in the fullness of time, in the groove
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